Wednesday, December 14, 2022

January 1960 (Sleeping Beauty)

Beginning of the End (USA - 1956 - bw)
Behind the Great Wall of China (Derrière la grande muraille) (Fr - 1958 - bw)

Comanche Station (USA - 1959) (scope)

Destiny of a Man (Судьба человека) /USA: Fate of a Man (USSR - 1959 - bw)

Fate of a Man (see: Destiny of a Man)
Fort Bowie (USA - 1957 - bw)

The German Story (...Du und mancher Kamerad) (E.Ger - 1956 - bw)
The Girl Rosemarie (Das Mädchen Rosemarie) /USA: Rosemary (W.Ger - 1958 - bw)

Happy Anniversary (USA - 1959 - bw)
Hiroshima mon amour (Fr/Jpn - 1959 - bw)

The Incredible Petrified World (USA - 1957 - bw)

• Kruschev: Man of Peace (Н.С. Хрущов в Америке) (USSR - 1959) [BBFC]

Labyrinth (W.Ger/It - 1959 - bw)

Matti (Vildmarkssommar) (Swd/UK - 1957)

Never So Few (USA - 1959) (scope) (4-channel)
Night Train for Inverness (UK - 1959 - bw)

Operation Petticoat (USA - 1959)
Our Man in Havana (UK - 1959 - bw) (scope)

Passion of the Wilderness (Tumulto de Paixões) /USA: The Witch Beneath the Sea (Brazil/Ger/USA - 1958)
Pillow Talk (USA - 1959) (scope)

Rosemary (see: Girl Rosemarie, The)
The Royal Ballet (UK - 1959)

The Savage Eye (USA - 1959 - bw)
The Scarface Mob (TVM) (USA - 1959 - bw)
Sentenced for Life (UK - 1959 - bw)
Serengeti (see: Serengeti Shall Not Die)
Serengeti Shall Not Die (Serengeti darf nicht sterben) /USA: Serengeti (W.Ger - 1959)
The Shakedown (UK - 1959 - bw)
The Silent Stranger (Step Down to Terror) (USA - 1958 - bw)
Sleeping Beauty (USA - 1958) (Super Technirama 70) (70mm 6-channel)
Step Down to Terror (see: Silent Stranger, The)
The Story on Page One (USA - 1960 - bw) (scope)
Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) (Swd - 1950 - bw)
A Summer Place (USA - 1959)

Tamango (Fr/It - 1957) (scope)
Teenage Zombies (USA - 1957 - bw)
Too Young to Love (UK - 1959 - bw)
Two Way Stretch (UK - 1960 - bw)

White Wilderness (USA - 1958) ¹
The Witch Beneath the Sea (see: Passion of the Wilderness)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (USA - 1959) (scope)

¹ This Oscar-winning documentary contains a notorious sequence in which a group of lemmings appear to commit 'suicide' by leaping from a cliff. However, the footage was later exposed by the Canadian TV news programme The Fifth Estate (1981-present) as an act of deliberate cruelty by the filmmakers.

Primary sources:
Unless otherwise indicated, titles listed in this entry were first registered with the UK Board of Trade in Jan 1960. Theatrical release dates may differ.

Updated 7 Sep 2024.


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